Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Provincetown Players in a clumsy drama about two women who coop themselves in a farmhouse, vowing to abjure sex for the winter season. So nebulous is Playwright Thomas Herbert Dickinson, onetime English professor (University of Wisconsin), that you cannot be sure whether or not he is describing a modern Lesbos...
...Civic Opera Company, later in Manhattan and other U. S. cities. Engagements and prestige came fast. She was premiére danseuse of the Bolm Ballet Intime, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago (a defunct organization then dedicated to modern ballet); for a summer in Europe as the only U. S. citizen ever with the Diaghilev Russian Ballet. She is the wife of Thomas Hart Fisher, son of Taft-time Secretary of the Interior Walter Lowrie Fisher, a lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During...
...Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...
...captain and a farmer's daughter. He has studied in Paris, practiced in the U. S. for 30 years (newspaper cartoons, stained glass windows, smartchart layouts for Vogue, oils of every description). Large and athletic, with a greying red beard, a monkish bald spot, he likes modern French painting less than modern Mexican painting. When Mexican Diego Rivera's paintings (TIME, May 6) were first hung, seven people were shot. Says Robinson: "I'd be glad if someone stepped on a policeman's toe when I show mine...
...following compilation of the results of the series since its beginning in 1875, the scores are omitted up until 1883 when the modern system of keeping count first went into effect. YEAR WINNER H Y 1875 Harvard 1876 Yale 1878 Yale 1879 Tie 1880 Yale 1881 Yale 1882 Yale 1883 Yale 2 23 1884 Yale 0 48 1885 Yale 4 29 1886 No Game 1887 Yale 8 17 1888 No Game 1889 Yale 0 6 1890 Harvard 12 6 1891 Yale 0 10 1892 Yale 0 6 1893 Yale 0 6 1894 Yale 4 12 1895 No Game...